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IP Addresses, Privacy and the GDPR
It's well-known that the General Data Protection Regulation says that IP addresses sho...
Janet North West Regional Delivery Servi...
Please find attached the North West region service report for the month of January 2019...
GDPR: What's your justification?
[Updated Sep.18 to repair links broken by the demise of the Article 29 WP website][Updated...
East of England Service Report - Decembe...
East of England Service Report - December 2018...
Thames Valley Service Report January 201...
Thames Valley Service Report January 2019 ...
Brexit and GDPR
Under current plans the UK will become - for data protection purposes - a "third country" when it leaves the EU. Although the UK Government has stated that the rules for transferring personal data from the UK to the EU will r...
Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
GDPR: Recording Phone Calls
Most of us are familiar with the recorded messages at the start of phone calls that warn &...
GDPR: Backups, Archives and the Right to...
I was recently asked how the GDPR's Right to Erasure would affect backups and archives...
GDPR: Attendance Monitoring
A question recently arose about monitoring students' attendance at lectures and tutorials, and how this fitted into data protection law. Since the main purpose of such monitoring seems to be to identify and assist students who don't attend, and whose presence is therefore not recorded or processed, there seem to be a number of both practical and legal issues to think ab...
What's the data protection difference be...
[UPDATE] a slightly revised version of this post formed our response to the ICO consultati...
Revised DPIA cribsheet
Shortly after we did out first Data Protection Impact Assessments, on the Janet Security Operations Centre and the Jisc Learning Analytics Service, the ICO published its DPIA guidance. This contained a few minor additions, which have been added to this new version of our information gathering cribsheet:In section (a) the nature of processing should mention any new technologies ...
Data and Ethics: update
Earlier this week I did a presentation to a group from Dutch Universities on the ethics work that Jisc has done alongside its studies, pilots and services on the use of data. This covered the development of our Learning Analytics Code of Practice, as well as our plans to apply that Code to wellbeing applications, and work to develop an Impact Assessment toolkit for Intelligent ...
Free Text and Data Protection
Collections of free text – whether in database fields, documents or email archives – present a challenge both for operations and under data protection law. They may contain personal data but it's hard to find: whether you're trying to use it, to ensure compliance with the data protection principles, or to allow data subjects to exercise their legal rights. S...
GDPR: Alumni processes
Most universities maintain databases of alumni, for purposes including keeping them inform...
Janet Wales service report December 2018
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to the Janet network via the PSBA...
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Please find attached the North West region service report for the month of January 2019
To my ex-programmer ears, phrases like "web 2.0" and "industry 4.0" always sound a bit odd. Sectors don’t have release dates, unlike Windows 10, iOS 12 or Android...
Please find attached the Cumbria area service report for the month of January 2019
Please find attached the Cumbria area service report for the month of December 2018
